Dilshad D. Ali

Dilshad D. Ali is a freelance editor and journalist, a senior columnist at Interfaith America, and the former Blog and Content Editor of The Haute Take, the media arm of Haute Hijab, and covered all things pertaining to Muslim women. Prior to Haute Hijab, Ms. Ali was the managing editor of Patheos Muslim at Patheos.com and the editor of Altmuslim, a microsite at Patheos, as well as blogging on the intersection of faith, family and autism at The Muslimah Next Door. She has covered Muslims and Islam in America for more than 20 years for a variety of media outlets, including Religion News Service, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Islam-Online.net (before it became About Islam), Newsweek, Azizah Magazine, Illume Magazine, Islamica magazine, Nieman Reports, and Beliefnet. Her other passion is autism advocacy, as her eldest son is profoundly autistic. She serves on the Board of Directors for MUHSEN as well as on the Board of Directors for the Autism Society of Central Virginia (ASCV) and served two terms as a governor-appointee to the Virginia Autism Advisory Council. She was honored the Mission Champion for the ASCV in 2022 and as a White House Champion of Change in 2015 on the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act for her disability writings and advocacy work.